Much about bones / 1-2-3 a baby buggy

[hirez]

Since the mid sixties, Bernd and Hilla Becher have been cataloguing industrial buildings. Their work is entirely hypnotic, akin to some odd woodcut taxonomy of plants, or early Kraftwerk rendered as a photograph. It's also entirely alien.

A bit odd, therefore, to discover one had pottered about the remains of a site they'd visited in 1965. Yesterday's pottering was somewhere else again, and you can see the photos here, if you've a mind to be interested in that sort of thing (2Mb of pictures. abandoned pits, dams, tunnels, sheep bones, drained reservoirs in the Ballard style).

My own photos will turn up in about six months when I remember to take them down to the chemist.

Comments

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

Ah they brought you back, then? I had the feeling that this one (http://codesmiths.com/dingbat/lj/20060130/DSC01033.jpg) was them taking you up to the mother ship.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear so. Definite feel of Quatermass up there, too.

I wish I could find the photos of a similar expedidion with SFC from 1990.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

Maybe you left him in the tunnel, and those are his bones?

[quercus.livejournal.com]

That would explain the ginger fleece I found down there...